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Black Lunch Table
@ AADHum

When and Where
Date:	Tuesday,March 3rd, 2020
Time:	2-3:30 pm
Address:	AADHum Workshop, Hornbake Library
University of Maryland, College Park
as part of MITH Digital Dialogues

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The Black Lunch Table (BLT) will host an edit-a-thon at The African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities (AADHum) Initiative at The University of Maryland on Tuesday March 3rd, from 2-3:30pm. We will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of Black visual artists. A brief overview of the basics of Wikipedia editing will be given at the start of the edit-a-thon. We will have resources and a list of suggested artists, cultural creators, and institutions on hand. All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required.

History of The Black Lunch Table

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) is an ongoing collaboration between artists Jina Valentine (Fishantena (talk)) and Heather Hart (Heathart (talk)) which intends to fill holes in the documentation of contemporary art history. In its 15 year existence, the BLT has taken a variety of forms relating to this most recent iteration, in the form of the Wikipedia edit-a-thon. BLT creates a space to encourage people of color and women to join the Wikimedia movement while also asking white male editors to focus on gaps in coverage on Wikimedia. BLT’s aim is the production of discursive sites (at literal and metaphorical lunch tables), wherein cultural producers of color engage in critical dialogue on topics directly affecting our communities. They endeavor to create spaces, online and off, mirroring the activity and creativity present in sites where Blackness and art are performed.

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About AADHum

The African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities (AADHum) Initiative brings African American studies and digital humanities together in order to support scholars and expand upon both fields, making the digital humanities more inclusive of African American history and culture and enriching African American studies research with digital methods, archives, and tools.

https://aadhum.umd.edu/about/

Event details and Agenda

Date: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020
Time: 2-3:30pm
Location: AADHum, University of Maryland

Event Agenda:

• Presentation, follow along or review, Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Presentation
• Editing time
• Goals:

-Create a user account (if new to Wikipedia)

-Create user page with at least one sentence

-Signin to Wikipedia edit-a-thon meetup page

-Make at least one edit to a Wikipedia page

Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, photographers, teachers, writers, journalists, curators,the curious...
What to Bring: Your laptop and a friend! 
Hashtag: #BlackLunchTable

Uploading photos

• Image Guide
• Where to find them.
• Dos and Donts
• Asking an artist for images.

Possible articles to edit

Black Lunch Table Task List

Although our project focuses on visual artists of the African Diaspora, you are welcomed to edit whatever you want. Please add an article below that you think we should focus on. These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidelines before you create a new page. Thanks!

Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - live doc to keep track of what we are all working on

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This list is automatically generated from data in Wikidata and is periodically updated by Listeriabot.
Edits made within the list area will be removed on the next update!

Article	birthplace	place of death	Residence	educated at	employer
Akili Ron Anderson	Washington, D.C.			Howard University
Alexander Boghossian	Addis Ababa	Washington, D.C.	Washington, D.C.	Slade School of Fine Art École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts Académie de la Grande Chaumière	Howard University
Alfred J. Smith	Montclair		Washington, D.C. Boston
Alma Thomas	Columbus	Washington, D.C.		Howard University Columbia University Normal School for Colored Girls Teachers College
André Leon Talley	Washington, D.C.			Brown University North Carolina Central University Hillside High School	Vogue
Barbara Jones-Hogu	Chicago	Chicago Heights	Chicago Washington, D.C.	Howard University Art Institute of Chicago Illinois Institute of Art – Chicago
Charles Sebree		Washington, D.C.
Clarissa Sligh	Washington, D.C.		Asheville	Hampton University The Wharton School Howard University The Skowhegan School of Art
David C. Driskell	Eatonton			Howard University The Catholic University of America	University of Maryland
Dorothy Henriques-Wells	Jamaica Saint Andrew	Miami	Miami Toronto Washington, D.C.	OCAD University
Elizabeth Catlett	Washington, D.C.	Cuernavaca	New York City Cuernavaca	Howard University University of Iowa School of the Art Institute of Chicago Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda" Dunbar High School
Francisco Alvarado Juárez	Tela		New York City Honduras Washington, D.C.	Stony Brook University International Center of Photography Maryland Institute College of Art
Gerald Williams			Chicago Washington, D.C.	School of the Art Institute of Chicago Roosevelt University Howard University
Gregory Coates	Washington, D.C.		Washington, D.C.	Corcoran College of Art and Design Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
James Van Der Zee	Berkshire County	Washington, D.C.
Jefferson Pinder	Washington, D.C.		Chicago	University of Maryland
Julia Brown			Washington, D.C.	California Institute of the Arts Williams College	Columbian College of Arts and Sciences
Kay Brown	New York City	Washington, D.C.	New York City Northeast Northwest
Leo Robinson	Washington, D.C.		Boston	Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Howard University Cranbrook Academy of Art
Lloyd McNeill	Washington, D.C.			Howard University	Rutgers University
Loïs Mailou Jones	Boston	Washington, D.C.		School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Integrated Taxonomic Information System	Howard University
Martin Puryear	Washington, D.C.			The Catholic University of America Yale School of Art	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Phil Freelon	Philadelphia			Massachusetts Institute of Technology North Carolina State University Hampton University	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard University University of Utah University of Maryland North Carolina State University
Sonya Clark	Washington, D.C.		Richmond	Amherst College	Amherst College
Stan Squirewell	Washington, D.C.
Terry Adkins	Washington, D.C.	Brooklyn	Philadelphia	University of Kentucky Fisk University Illinois State University	University of Pennsylvania
Wadsworth Jarrell	Albany		Chicago Washington, D.C.	School of the Art Institute of Chicago Howard University	University of Georgia
Wesley Clark (artist)	Washington, D.C.			Syracuse University George Washington University
Zoë Charlton			Washington, D.C. Baltimore	University of Texas at Austin Florida State University

End of auto-generated list.

External links

• The Black Lunch Table
• Black Lunch Table – Wikipedia meetup page

Attendees

• Heathart (talk) 19:29, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

• Trevormunoz (talk) 19:29, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

• Abrownhist (talk) 19:29, 3 March 2020 (UTC)